The illusion of life 2 : more essays on animation /
Illusion of life two Illusion of life II
edited by Alan Cholodenko.
- 576 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / The long flight of manga and anime: the history of comics and animation in Japan / When velvet gloves meet iron fists: cuteness in Japanese animation / Hybridity and the end of innocence / De anime / Sonic-atomic-neumonic: apocalyptic echoes in anime / Pronoun trouble II: the missing dick / Between the legs of the mermaid / The infinite quest: Husserl, Bakshi, the rotoscope and the ring / Simba versus Kimba: the pride of lions / Allegories of animation: Schindler's list, E.T., and The lion king / Animating architectures: panic styles for troubled cities / Logistical space: flight simulation and virtual reality / Intertextual personae: character licensing in practice and theory / Porky's stutter: the vocal trope and lifedeath in animation / Animation 1: the control-image / Speculation on the animatic automaton / Fred Patten's annotated chronology of pertinent works and publications relevant to The Lion King and to the controversy -- The Life of Illusion program. Alan Cholodenko -- Kosei Ono -- Pauline Moore -- Jane Goodall -- William D. Routt -- Philip Brophy -- Richard Thompson -- Edward Colless -- Freida Riggs -- Fred Patten -- Rex Butler -- David Ellison -- Patrick Crogan -- Ben Crawford -- Annemarie Jonson -- William Schaffer -- Alan Cholodenko -- Japan. United States. Japan and the United States. The "expanded" field of animation: Live action and animation. Video and computer games, the electronic, digitally animated mediascape, the city, flight simulation, the military and war. Animation in the entertainment industry. More general theoretical pieces on animation. Appendices.--
"The Illusion of Life: Essays on Animation was the first significant book of scholarly essays theorizing animation. The Illusion of Life 2 continues and extends its pioneering work in the theory of animation. It provides an abundance of understandings, approaches, correctives and challenges to scholars not only in animation studies but in Film Studies, indeed to disciplines across the spectrum. It proceeds on the assumption that animation, in increasingly taking ‘centre stage’ thanks to computer animation and anime, calls ever more insistently for focused, rigorous theoretical attention. The sixteen essays composing the collection engage with post-World War II film animation in Japan and the United States, as well as with the ‘expanded’ field of animation, including: the relation of live action and animation video and computer games; the electronic, digitally animated mediascape, the city, flight simulation, the military and war; and animation in the entertainment industry." -- Publisher's website.
0909952345 9780909952341
Power Institute Foundation for Art & Visual Culture, RC Mills Bldg, A26, Fisher Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006
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Animated films--History and criticism Animated films--Congresses Animated films. Animation (Cinematography)